For the herd: the shot and the shirt

Getting my annual flu shot significantly decreases the chances that I will become a vector of transmission for my elderly mother, her friends, my kids, their friends and family, and other vulnerable people in my community.

I was at greater risk of hitting a wallaby, on the way to and from work, than from this injection.

0 Responses to For the herd: the shot and the shirt

Your a douche! If the people around you are vaccinated then how will they catch anything off you if you don’t get yours? or are you saying vaccines are ineffective? which would then defeat the whole purpose of getting vaccinated in the first place?

Capt, the effectiveness of vaccines is less than 100%, there are people who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons, and very young infants cannot be vaccinated for all diseases.

So there is always a group of susceptible people. For some of this group the risk is extremely high. Young infants cannot be vaccinated against whooping cough, but for them the disease represents a life threatening illness.

So who exactly is the douche? The person for whom the disease is not normally life threatening but gets vaccinated to protect babies from death, or the person who ignores all the scientific evidence, indulges in conspiracy theories and pseudo science, and refuses to vaccinate because of a ridiculous ideology?

Are you guys saying that Vaccines are safe for everybody to take? That there are no “Side effects”

Surely one doesn’t have to go as far as to be a “Conspiracy Theorist” to want safer vaccines, and until they are satisfied that they are safer happens to feels cautious about taking every single one, especially the untested ones?

A strawman is when you first falsely accuse your opponents of holding a position that is easily refuted, second refute the position which you designed to be easily refuted, and third, celebrate your glorious victory. It’s a cowardly ploy, obviously, and one that you have clearly mastered